One of the best recent podcasts on AI. Neil has a gift for explaining all of the jargon and insights simply.
(I’m not involved, just found it unusually educational).
Recently reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, and this passage stopped me:
“Do you hear that dog barking in the distance? Or that car passing by? Listen carefully. Can you feel the presence of the Unmanifested in that? You can’t? Look for it in the silence out of which the sounds come and into which they return. Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.”
It immediately reminded me of a Tang Dynasty poem by Chang Jian (常建), Inscribed on the Meditation Hall Behind Poshan Temple (题破山寺后禅院):
清晨入古寺,初日照高林。
曲径通幽处,禅房花木深。
山光悦鸟性,潭影空人心。
万籁此俱寂,但余钟磬音。
Especially the last two lines — “All sounds fall silent here; only the temple bell remains.”